Aaj me apne man ki baat batana chaha raha hu . Sabse pahale mujhe kisi region se hate nhi h ye baat sab jaan lo . Me sirf jo ghatiya politics hoti h uske against hu . Agar koi Bhagalpur wala bhi ghatiya demands karega to uska bhi boycott kiya jayega . Me sirf apne area ke liye nhi sochta . Jo bhi area Politics ka shikar ho raha h uske liye sympathy h . Chahe Kashmir ho ya kanyakumari, Kutch ya Arunachal Pradesh. Har jagah ke sath hu . Or ho sakta h ki baki sab ki rai alag ho . Jo galat kar raha h vo to galat kar hi raha h . Jo galat hote hue dekh raha h vo bhi doshi h . Ek or baat . Apne area ki train ke liye sabke man me emotions hote h chahe unki train crawler hi kyu na ho...
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. Vikramshila meri hi nhi sab Bhagalpur walo ki pahali pasand h . Bahut sare youtuber bhi h jo Vikramshila se pyar krte h . To ye baat normal h isme kisiko problem nhi hona chahiye. Or mujhe kisi se jyada close hona pasand nhi h to meri personal life me interfere koi na kare . Jiske sath galat hua h uske sath me hamesha hu . Or agar mujhe jyada troll kiya gya . To troll krne se pahale mujhko bata dena tumse problem h to me khud Iri chhor dunga . Mujhe accha nhi lagta mujhse koi hate kare. Jai Bihar Jai Hind

I remember a lot of people used to mention how Sleeper and General class were loss makers and needed to be terminated as a whole.

What do y'all think about this? Loss making VBs. Some times ago I also made a post about how useless Bhopal - Indore VB was and Sampoorna Kranti's unreserved class was making more revenue than that of Bhopal - Indore VB.
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Clearly, Indian Railways and the Government are also at fault for Railway's loss making nature and not just some exclusive classes like SL or GS.

If your place would have that much of an importance as generally people claim the place to have, the already running train between New Delhi and Ballia which is Bhrigu Express, would have been made daily. The disdain behind his demeanor is when because of the caprice of so called politics, it is the people which suffers.

Let me give you another example, the extension of Kamayani Express unintentionally only harmed Prayagraj at most because when BSB still gets GNWL on it, however Prayagraj which generally gets GNWL from its remote Phulpur...
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within similar distinct, now gets almost no quota of its own after the extension.

Also rubbing salt on the wounds, Prayagraj's own Tulsi Express now extended to Ayodhya, Prayagraj lost its quota too and have to compete with places like Ayodhya, Sultanpur and Pratapgarh. And the very next moment these so called rail buffs come around and ask for the extension of Prayagraj Duronto to their ridiculous XYZ location too, without knowing the fact that the train has almost no TAT. If you want, ask for a new service, look how Mau got one, don't take portions from others plate. I can see why people may hate the fact and it's obvious why people generally berates as per their intent.

Northern Railway all set to launch Vande Bharat Express between Lucknow & Patna.

Connecting the capital cities of neighboring states, the new train will run via Sultanpur & Varanasi.

Survey for Lucknow -...
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Dehradun Vande Bharat service too has been completed
#RailnewsbyPandeyji
#Vande Bharat
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#patna

--Subject- Rake standardisation
I've been reading a lot of debates on this forum regarding rake standardisation. At times, it does turn ugly. Its fine, each one of us has their own opinion and we are not here to crib and fight. Our passion binds us to this website and this community; conflicts and rivalry are the last thing we must engage in.

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we saw incidents like stuffed AC coaches, death due to stampede in view of holiday season. In this backdrop, lets address the elephant in the room- rake standardisation and ACfication of railways.
My opinion is based on extensive reading of current state of economy and augmented by various newspaper articles.

That being said, rake standardisation is an ill thought strategy, especially when done without any homework.

--Why do I say so?
1. India provides free grains to 80cr people. These are people who cannot afford even something as basic as daily food and nutrition(mind you, this is almost 60-70% of India's population). These are the people that form the backbone of our labour market and contribute to labour arbitrage
2. Yearly incomes of bottom 50% people is barely Rs.50,000 per annum. An AC3 train ticket from Delhi to Patna for a single person would cost about 3% of his annual income or 30% of his monthly income.

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--Manifestation of these observations are-
1. 95% of travelers are Non AC (see this article- click here while AC coaches in trains are roughly 60-70% of the rake (click here . Where do you expect these people to go if not crowd AC coaches?
2. Railways was recently forced to introduce trains like Vande Sadharan. You cant ignore this segment at all.
3. Rake standardisation of certain trains were reversed (eg LTT CBE Ex)

--In that case, why are AC seats going full?
India has seen a K shaped recovery post COVID. While richer became rich, poorer became poorer. All in all, a very limited no of middle class people saw upward migration, so much so that they could afford 3AC tickets. Even 1A and 2A has demand now. Rest just took it because of compulsion. This is corroborated by the fact that luxury housing and car segment saw a phenomenal growth, while affordable housing and 2 wheeler sales saw a downturn.

--Suggestions-
1. People complain about subsidies offered in operations of Sleeper coaches, not realising that even 2A and 1A are loss making ventures. Ideally, 2A and 1A coaches should have been swapped with 3A coaches while sleeper could have been hiked by a marginal amount. People going in 1A or 2A could have easily shifted to 3A or flights. Railways should have restricted 1A and 2A to premium trains. In this way, profitability could have been achieved.

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2, Trains like 8 Car VB occupy slots during operations. Better to run a 22C Janshatabdi (or new high priority category) so that all segments of society can be catered instead of only privileged ones. Its not as if VBs are running at 140-150 in all sections. VBs are merely cosmetics in that section, and are punctual only bcoz of high priority accorded to them.
3. Bullet train profitability is highly debatable. There is no profitable High Speed train operations (baring one or two of them). 1L crore Rs could have done wonders to highly saturated routes like NDLS-CNB-MGS, NDLS-KOTA-RTM, NDLS-AGC-VGLJ-BPL, MMCT-BRC, MAS-HWH and so on and so forth). Air connectivity could have been augmented in both the cities instead (esp after Navi Mumbai Airport)
4. Standardise rakes in zones with relatively better socio economic conditions. 2SL, 14AC work better in sectors like MMCT-ADI and southern India. It wont work in NER, ECR etc. NER has been in standardisation spree lately.

--Future of rake standardisation and ACfication of railways-
Its likely that inequality will persist in future. Urbanisation rates are poised to increase from 30% in 2030 to 50% in 2050. Acc to Ravenstein's migration law, there will always be a source and a destination for migrants due to unequal development, irrespective of how much the source (for eg Bihar, UP) develops.
India will surely see a hike in percapita income with our consistent 6-7% growth, but its not yet adjusted for inflation. That being said, inequality is something that'll still persist. As of now, rake standardisation is not the most wise decision.


Comments are welcome, please be civil, no namecalling. Substantiate your argument with news articles and reports.
Good day.